McKellar Glacier
| McKellar Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Victory Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 38 km | |
| width | Max. 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 12 ′ S , 167 ° 7 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Pearl Harbor Glacier | |
The McKellar Glacier is about 38 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Victory Mountains, it flows along the east side of Evans Ridge to the Pearl Harbor Glacier .
The northern group of the New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition (1962-1963) named him after the New Zealand geologist and glaciologist Ian Charles McKellar (1919-1986), who participated in the 1957-1958 campaign as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition was involved in surveys of the area around the nearby Tucker Glacier .
Web links
- McKellar Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- McKellar Glacier on geographic.org (English)